[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Accents

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JenD said:-

>Was Tom being almost Cockney in the Slytherin Common Room when he
>said Dumbledore probably got the Daily Prophet to "hush it aw up..."
>in regards to keeping the attacks quiet? I am also an American and
>can tell some differences. This one stuck me.

Yes, that is a good example, as was the first part of the
sentence....'surprised' and 'Daily' (as in Daily Prophet) were both very
London.

> And as someone else
>noted, Tom sounded quite different from the first movie. I was
>wondering where Chris Columbus was during all this accent shifting.
>Maybe he never noticed.

Yes. David Heyman is the one who really should have known better. I can't
really blame Columbus, since he may just not have the ear for it. Any Brit
would know the difference, though.

>Accent is an important aspect of character to
>me, especially in British films where accent can indicate so much
>about a character. It is disconcerting to have accents be so
>undependable.

It's the same in the US as well; a character who speaks with a patrician
Bostonian accent, as opposed to good ol' Bubba from Miss-hippy...you judge
by accents too.

Regards,
Nicholas